TL;DR review: HTC’s Vive Pro VR headset gives you a sharper and more immersive view of virtual worlds, but the hefty price tag means it’s only for the most hardcore VR fans.
Cool Factor: 😎😎😎 (3 out of 5)
Learning Curve: Ԃ…
Category: HTC
HTC is looking for a savior in VR, but it won’t find it
Times are certainly tight at HTC, but their plays in the consumer VR market are starting to look like Hail Marys. The company’s central VR platform play, their Viveport subscription product is regarded by a lot of people I’ve talked to as little more than bloatware, while their newest product, the Vive Pro, is an […]
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Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference the company unveiled a wild technology demo and it’s straight out of Black Panther. Simply put, a driver using virtual reality was remotely controlling a car in real life. “He’s not with us,” Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said pointing the driver on the stage. “He’s looking at this virtual […]
View More Nvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual realityTPCast unveils adapter to enable multiple wireless HTC Vive VR headsets
Late last year, TPCast announced an adapter that cut the HTC Vive cords. The company is back with an enterprise version that delivers 2k content to several HTC Vive units with sub 2ms latency. Unveiled at Nvidia’s GTC 2019 conference in San Jose, California, the product is aimed at VR uses cases where multiple people […]
View More TPCast unveils adapter to enable multiple wireless HTC Vive VR headsetsHTC had a terrible holiday quarter
Smartphone and VR headset maker HTC has published its consolidated results for Q4 2017 — and it makes for grim reading. The topline figures are: Flat quarterly revenue of NT$15.7 billion (~$540M) with gross margin of -30.8% Quarterly operating loss of NT$9.6 billion (~$330M) with operating margin of -60.8% Quarterly net loss after tax: NT$9.8 […]
View More HTC had a terrible holiday quarterHTC launches Vive Pro for virtual reality enthusiasts (who already own the Vive)
HTC has announced the price for its new virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro: $799.
The headset, which was originally announced during CES in January, will now become HTC’s flagship VR product. The regular Vive will become the company’s entry …
HTC launches Vive Pro for virtual reality enthusiasts (who already own the Vive)
HTC has announced the price for its new virtual reality headset, the Vive Pro: $799.
The headset, which was originally announced during CES in January, will now become HTC’s flagship VR product. The regular Vive will become the company’s entry …
HTC’s Vive Pro headset will retail for a steep $799, and that doesn’t even include controllers
The top widely-available VR headset that money can buy is… gonna take a lot of money to buy. HTC has released pricing info for its Vive Pro headset that the company showed off at CES and it ain’t cheap. The company had previously detailed that they would begin selling the system as a headset-only package […]
View More HTC’s Vive Pro headset will retail for a steep $799, and that doesn’t even include controllersVR, presence and the case of the missing killer app
Compelling virtual reality shipped to developers and consumers nearly two years ago. The first flagship headsets arrived from Oculus and HTC back in the spring of 2016, offering enough resolution, frame rate, field of view, latency mitigation and position-tracking to produce believable visual immersion. But no one seems to know what to do with it.
View More VR, presence and the case of the missing killer appHTC’s new flagship phone leaks two months early
Despite having sold most of itself to Google, HTC still makes phones. And the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone, the HTC U12+, might be an interesting proposition for the brand’s faithful.
The phone, unearthed by prominent leaker Evan Blas…
HTC debuts original Ready Player One content for the Vive
While some don’t care for the hit novel Ready Player One, it’s hard to deny that the book captured the hearts and minds of millions as it climbed the NYT Bestseller’s list in 2011. At the end of this month, a film adaptation of the book, directed by Stephen Spielberg, will be released in theaters. And given the book’s heavy focus on VR, it makes sense that HTC wants to… Read More
HTC’s smartphone chief and ex-CFO, Chialin Chang, resigns
HTC’s smartphone and connected devices president and former CFO, Chialin Chang, has resigned. The move, spotted earlier by Engadget, was announced today and is effective immediately. Read More